sō

revival by Shōkadō Shōjō

...(Pine Flower Temple), whence his name and the name of his school of followers, the Shōkadō school. His major achievement was to revivify calligraphy by reviving the traditional sō (“grass”) writing style—a rapid, cursive script that originated in China and was practiced by a 9th-century Japanese Shingon saint Kōbō Daishi. Using the...